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Newton, Sir Isaac - Principia - Seas of energy
Identifier
001439
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The following is fairly complex. Newton proposed that the physical world is somewhat like a ship - floating, like a ship, on a sea of energy. Everything happening on the ship works according to its own laws. When things fall in a ship they fall vertically, they don’t fall at an angle depending on the velocity with which the ship is moving. In fact you have no idea in a ship whether you are moving or whether the sea is moving and even whether sea or you are moving at all. You are just ‘floating’ on it.
A description of the experience
Sir Isaac Newton – Principia
“ A clear proof of which we have from the experiment of a ship, where all motions happen after the same manner whether the ship is at rest, or is uniformly forward in a straight line”
The source of the experience
Newton, Sir IsaacConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
BoatScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Being left handedContemplation and detachment
Home schooling
Inherited genes
Premature birth
Reducing threats